Why looking away during a skin prick may carry a physical cost — in one…
Three pre-registered experiments ran a standard histamine skin prick test on the forearm at least twice per person and varied the instruction about where to put their attention. Attending to the arm produced smaller reactions in roughly nine out of ten participants. The sample is 57 healthy adults, mostly women, average age mid-twenties, and the authors write that a reduced reaction may not universally reflect beneficial regulation.
